Man, this day is going to DRAG!
Don't have much left to do here, just putting in the hours. Just got officially offered the paid position at the government site, though it's still only part time for now. Next step, full time and leaving the advertising world behind, hopefully!
Congrats! Will they do a 60day review or something similar with a full time offer?
I basically have to get "in the system" this way, first, to be eligible for full time positions that are only open to current county employees at the moment. Kinda hoping it works out to be a short cut instead of waiting for the positions to open up to the public. It's government, so they have to go through a fairly extensive and "fair" interview process when opening things up to the public. The department I'm in was willing to jump around those loopholes for the part time position since they were technically allowed to avoid the more lengthy hiring process by doing it this way.
I don't even know if that makes sense. Government is confusing.
No, that makes total sense. It's so much easier for them do commit to PT, even if it's a few weeks, for the fear that if it doesn't turn out it's a lot less energy on their part...and with gubment that's probably a lot of shit.
My sister just did a similar thing in WA for her nursing job-hired her on for 3mo as PT, work 40hr weeks, after 2mo then just brought her on full time once they all realized they liked her and realized she fit in well there. Job was posted and everything, but way simpler since it was for internals only.
